Rita Mae Reese is the author of The Alphabet Conspiracy. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship in fiction, a “Discovery”/The Nation award, and a Pamaunok Poetry Prize.

Millicent Borges Accardi is the author of three poetry books: Injuring Eternity, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, and Only More So. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, and the California Arts Council.

Colleen Abel is the author of Housewifery, a chapbook. A former Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow, her work has appeared in the Southern Review, Mid-American Review, West Branch, The Journal, Cimarron Review, and Verse Daily.

Eileen Myles’s most recent books are Snowflake/different streets (poetry) and Inferno (a poet’s novel), which is now available on iTunes and audible.com in her own voice. Awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and a 2014 poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She lives in New York.

Marty McConnell is the author of wine for a shotgun. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among others. She is the founder of Vox Ferus, and a co-founder of the louderARTS Project.